The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network.

To achieve that, we propose to use ActivityPub, the w3c standard used by the Fediverse. This will allow us to build upon a robust and battle-tested protocol, and it will open GitLab to a wider community.

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[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Being able to create issues and discuss merge requests on various source hosting sites without having to create an account on each would be a huge step forward! Especially since M$ has taken over Github and is well on its way to become the defacto centralized Git hoster.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hold on, are we trying to decentralize an intentionally-centralized point for an already decentralized source versioning system? 😅

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not quite.

A project's repo would still be in one centralized location, like gitlab.com. But you'd no longer need an account on gitlab.com to make a pull request.

[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago

He's saying Git is already decentralized, GitLab isn't.

A project using mailing lists for development can already receive patches from (pretty much) any mail server (while still having a central Git repo).

It's kinda surprising it took this long for this to come to Git "forges" TBH.

[–] syscall@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

I don't think of GitLab as super centralized (compared to GitHub) because you can run your own instance. Communication between GitLab instances would be huge

[–] mark@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's nice, Gitlab. Now do RSS feeds.

[–] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

Thought that's already supported? e.g. https://gitlab.com/diasporg/diaspora.atom

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago

You're looking for Forejo or Gitea

[–] syscall@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

We're getting ActivityPub support before first party SaaS/hosted GitLab on a custom domain 😭

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

This is what I like about the fediverse

[–] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

I wonder whether they are aware of the ForgeFed project?